Just read two books to the girls recently that were great. The Voyage of the Basset (can't remember the author). This was a chapter book that took several nights to get through and it has incredibly beautiful illustrations! And we just read Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman. This was a shorter one, but really sweet and again with lovely illustrations.

i remember fondly a book called Stig of the dump, i loved that book and read it so many times cant remember the author thoough, and they made it into a mini series on telly but if i remember it didnt hold a light to the book.